Provision of live cultured organisms

A range of aquaculture fish species can be provided, such as sole (Sole senegalensis), seabream (Sparus aurata), seabass (Dicentrachus labrax), and other model species such as cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis), seahorses (Hippocampus guttulatus).

The Blue Biotechnology and Ecotoxicology Culture Collection (LEGE-CC) is a collection of microorganisms from CIIMAR, registered in the World Federation for Culture Collections (WFCC). The Culture Collection comprises more than 386 different cyanobacterial strains, several of them unique among the (phylogenetic) diversity of the group. Live culture supply of 386 cyanobacterial strains, genomic DNA, algal extracts and freeze-dried material. These isolates have been obtained since 1991, from samples collected in different environments and locations mainly in Portugal (including Madeira and Azores Islands), but also elsewhere (e.g. Australia, Brazil, Colombia, Morocco, Mexico). http://www.ciimar.up.pt/legecc/

Descriptive group:

Cyanobacteria

Sample collection: Culture

Provision of cultured Planctomycetes

Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research

Part of offer : Access to the laboratories and technology platforms at CIIMAR

Isolation and culturing of Planctomycetes and other bacteria from diverse environments, more than 200 Planctomycetes and bacteria from different phyla (Proteobacteria, Actinobacteria, Firmicutes and Bacteroidetes) obtained from sponge microbiome, the biofilm of macroalgae and grapes, salines and deep sea.

Descriptive group:

Planctomycetes

Sample collection: Culture

Sampling of organisms from the Atlantic Western coast of Portugal and adjacent estuaries

Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research

Part of offer : Access to ecosystems of the Atlantic Western coast of continental Portugal and adjacent estuaries

Microorganisms preserved collection - OOV

Collection of more than 20000 planktonic samples from world wide & Tara expeditions (Ocean, Med, PolarCircle), and long term series data (Moose, Dyfamed, Point B) (http://www.embrc-france.fr/en/our-services/supply-biological-resources/microorganisms/zooplancton).

Wild specimens collected in situ - OOB

Collection of Marine fauna and flora in situ Villefranche Bay- see list of some organisms http://www.embrc-france.fr/en/our-services/supply-biological-resources/macroorganisms/macroorganisms-collected-situ.

Wild specimens collected in situ - SBR

Collect and supply of local marine flora and fauna specimens (on the shore or at sea) in Morlaix Bay (http://www.embrc-france.fr/en/our-services/supply-biological-resources/macroorganisms/macroorganisms-collected-situ).

This service provides access to samples from the Belgian wind mill farms since 2008, to samples from Belgian coastal groynes systematically sampled since 2014. Ad hoc samples from Belgian harbour walls are also available.

Provision of time series of wild Salmo salar scales

All scale samples are fully archived and catalogued. Scale samples have been pressed on acetate strips and all associated metadata (capture date, smolt age, sea age, sex, back-calculated measures of length at sentinel events for each fish) have been collated and archived for >150,000 fish.

Sample collection: Biobank

List of organisms:

Salmo salar

Provision of preserved sample series of Spirobranchus lamarckii

Scottish Oceans Institute

Part of offer : Provision of preserved sample series of <i>Spirobranchus lamarckii</i>